Maybe a Playlist Addition for IV--Neil Young's LA

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its reportedly written by Young around 1968-1969. on the great Time
Fades Away record (still not on CD)

L.A.
In a matter of time,
There'll be a friend of mine
Gonna come to the coast,
You're gonna see him
Up close for a minute or two
While the ground cracks under you.

By the look in your eyes
You'd think that it was a surprise
But you seem to forget
Something somebody said
About the bubbles in the sea
And an ocean full of trees.

And you now, L.A.
Uptight, city in the smog, city in the smog.
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Don't you wish that you could be here too?

Well, it's hard to believe
So you get up to leave
And you laugh at the door
That you heard it all before
Oh it's so good to know
That it's all just a show for you.

But when the suppers are planned
And the freeways are crammed
And the mountains erupt
And the valley is sucked
Into cracks in the earth
Will I finally be heard by you.

L.A.
Uptight, city in the smog, city in the smog.
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Don't you wish that you could be here too?
Don't you wish that you could be here too?

________

speaking of I wonder if this will be mentioned in IV

Santa Barbara's oil spill of 1969 is re-examined as the birth of the
modern day environmental movement.

on January 28, 1969, a “blowout” erupted below the platform and,
before it was plugged, more than 3 million gallons of crude oil spewed
from drilling-induced cracks in the channel floor. For weeks national
attention was focused on the spill’s disturbing, dramatic images.
Oil-soaked birds, unable to fly, slowly dying on the sand. Waves so
thick with crude oil that they broke on shore with an eerie silence.
Thirty miles of sandy beaches coated with thick sludge. Hundreds of
miles of ocean covered with an oily black sheen. But the spills impact
went far beyond the fouled beaches. The disaster is considered to be a
major factor in the birth of the modern-day environmental movement.